Watched this on YouTube last night; had seen it when it first came out. It's a powerful movie and almost as good as the big-screen "Mississippi Burning" which fictionalizes the FBI investigation.
"Murder in Mississippi" I think takes some liberties with the relationship between Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney; I suspect that they weren't that antagonistic towards each other.
Tom Hulce is outstanding as Schwerner, a few years after his Oscar-nominated work in "Amadeus". Jennifer Grey is also very good as Jill Schwerner, his idealistic wife who is overwhelmed by the situation they're in.
The actors playing the racist Klansmen are uniformly convincing. The language in this movie is absolutely brutal, like a hammer hitting the viewer constantly over the head. Josh Charles plays Andrew Goodman, who comes into the story very late (Goodman had only been in Mississippi a couple of days before the murders). Charles makes the most of his late entry into the story.
All-around, it's an outstanding movie and really it should've been released on the big screen instead of TV.
"Murder in Mississippi" I think takes some liberties with the relationship between Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney; I suspect that they weren't that antagonistic towards each other.
Tom Hulce is outstanding as Schwerner, a few years after his Oscar-nominated work in "Amadeus". Jennifer Grey is also very good as Jill Schwerner, his idealistic wife who is overwhelmed by the situation they're in.
The actors playing the racist Klansmen are uniformly convincing. The language in this movie is absolutely brutal, like a hammer hitting the viewer constantly over the head. Josh Charles plays Andrew Goodman, who comes into the story very late (Goodman had only been in Mississippi a couple of days before the murders). Charles makes the most of his late entry into the story.
All-around, it's an outstanding movie and really it should've been released on the big screen instead of TV.